Our Labor Day Weekend

For our three day weekend, Tonia and I decided that we would take the girls with us up to Salt Lake City to stay the night and then take them to the zoo on Monday morning. After church on Sunday, we packed up and made our way to Salt Lake to  a hotel we have become fond of, Hampton Inn. Sunday night we took the girls on a walk around the city, we ended up walking to Temple Square where we ran into a few people that we knew from BYU-Hawaii.

Kaikai enjoyed our visit to the temple, she got to run around the visitor's center and liked seeing the temple.  We talked with some of the missionaries that were serving there on temple square, they were impressed with kaikai because she kept saying "Pempo", which is her way of saying temple, and pointed out Jesus.

We had a pretty good night at the hotel.  It was our first time taking Kai and Kalea on an overnighter.  We usually just take Kai and leave Kalea home. Because it was out first time with both babies, we were nervous about how they would sleep, worrying that one would wake the other and it sounded like a perfect recipe for a long night.  Luckily both girls did pretty well.  Kaikai did end up sleeping in our bed with us, but she slept well.

Monday morning we headed up to the Hogle Zoo trying to beat the crowds.  It was a lot of fun, we got to see elephants, rhinos, tigers, monkeys, giraffes, and a lot more animals.  Kai seemed to have an awesome time and Kalea ended up sleeping most of the time.  We took a lot of pictures and here are some of them.

We bought Kai a backpack with an elephant, and the best part is that it has a leash on it so we can keep a hand on kaikai.

Kaikai and I posing with King Kong.

I thought we measured up pretty well.

Kalea finally woke up so we were able to take a picture with her on the Tiger.

We were able to get Tonia in front of the camera for this one.  She makes the giraffe look even taller :)

I think Kalea agree's that we had a good day at the zoo